IBM is preparing to exhibit and demonstrate their Portable Mobile Datacenter pictured on the left, (PMDC) at the Gartner Group Data Center Conference Dec. 5-7, 2011. The conference will be held in Las Vegas at Caesars Palace. Among the superstar presenters at the show will be Steve Sams, IBM Vice President of IBM Site and Facilities Service. Last year, Mr. Sams spoke to a standing room only crowd at the conference about best practices for developing cost-effective and efficient data centers to support business growth. According to Steve, "60 percent of Data Center savings come from smart mechanical and electrical savings." He reminded the crowd to plan for efficiency in the "design phase of a project." He also recommends the use of "server virtualization analytics" in planning for an optimized, productive data center. Look for Steve Sam's session on Monday Dec. 5th at lunch time during the conference. Following are full details.

Abstract:Analytics have been used by CEO’s to improve business performance. What if analytics-based services could be applied to improving your IT performance? Addressing unpredictable demands from business, technology and compute models are challenges we face. Learn how to leverage Watson-like analytic approaches to provide flexible, cost-effective data center solutions. Analytics can be used to better align IT to the business needs, optimize server, storage and network utilization and improve data center design.

Medical Imaging is changing the dynamics of data storage with over 20% annual growth and no end in sight. The challenge for The University of Rochester Medical Center was to keep up with their data growth while containing costs. Rick Haverty will discuss how his team built a storage strategy that transformed their environment to bring savings right to their bottom line without sacrificing the speed, criticality and performance requirements of their imaging and EMR systems.

Are you fighting a battle of growing resource management costs and shrinking budgets and being asked to move to the cloud? Drive more virtualization than ever before using best practices from virtualizing over 130,000 images in our own data centers. Learn which three advances in technology and software will help you to achieve a significant breakthrough in IT effectiveness, resiliency and security. All while positioning your company to be able to move faster into the cloud.

If you're interested in learning more, stop by IBM Booth MM at the Gartner Data Center Conference. Exhbit hours are the following:

Solution Exchange Hours:

Monday, Dec 5:6:15PM – 8:15PM

Tuesday, Dec 6:11:45AM – 1:45PM6:30PM – 8:30PM

Wednesday, Dec 7:11:45AM – 1:45PM

Look for the IBM Portable Mobile Data Center, the big trailer on the show floor. And take the opportunity to ask IBM Experts at the show your questions about how to increase the efficiency of your data center, and optimize your hardware for greater savings. Make sure to stop by, your session with an IBM Expert is complimentary. Take a tour of the IBM Portable Modular Data Center; a turnkey data center built for any environment for remote, temporary, mobile and raised floor expansion solutions.